Sarah Smith is an award-winning writer, director, and editor. In 2025, she was selected for the Disney Entertainment Television Directing Program, through which she directed multiple episodes of General Hospital. She is currently a protégé in the 2026 DGA Director Development Initiative mentorship program.

Her latest short, Cardiff, earned a BAFTA Cymru nomination. Her previous short, Black Hat, premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival, won the Iris Prize, and was broadcast on HBO Europe and PBS. Her debut short D.Asian screened at 35+ festivals worldwide and received the AT&T Underrepresented Filmmaker Award.

As an editor, Sarah cut five narrative features — including Armless, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, and Rise Again, a documentary following Israeli and Palestinian musicians collaborating for peace. She is a WGA Award winner for her work on The Young and the Restless and a Film Independent Project Involve Fellow where she received the Amazon MGM Studios grant. Sarah is a graduate of NYU's Tisch School of the Arts.